A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.